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"Fool me - you can't get fooled again."

Marley Chanson | 14.01.2006 05:02 | Analysis | World

Canada, are you going to let ‘JAlph LAYder’ be your girly-man ‘De-Terminator’?

If the Liberals were to embrace the NDP, such a move would be sure to spark amplified interest in the issues at stake, and defeat Stephen Harper’s Conservative parallel to George W. Bush’s Republicanism.

Have you noticed how new Canadian precedents and policies seem to arrive just a little earlier for their older neighbor to the south? Hmm…

I find Britain’s parallel relation to Her elder sister Rome and the influence of Italian Americans like Sammy ‘The Fifth’* Scalito on British Americans to be less than uncanny.

Then there are the British and French (Bloc Quebecois) origins in Canada. Hmm…

“fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."

--- President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

To apply the above quote in retrospect, I took the liberty of rewording the first part: ‘Fool you twice (2000 and 2004) shame on - shame on you.’ The last part remains true. If they could have fooled him; the people would have laughed him the hell out of the Whitehouse.

In retrospect, we all know that if the Democrats had embraced Ralph Nader, they would have assured Al Gore’s victory in the 2000 US Presidential election.

Even before the first Election, American 501(c)(3) theocrats like Tom DeLay, Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell were organizing a Clinton smear campaign (Parallel the unfounded Harper to Martin morality bite.), while campaigning to initiate Christian voters. A time of war, of course, secured Bush’s second Presidency - which is the standard in America. Even then, the vote margin was not a landslide and the Election results remain questionable.

It is fortunate for the American people that Mr. Bush has smeared the Republicans much more than they could have hoped to smear Bill Clinton and the Democrats.

Obviously economic visions separated the Democrats and the Greens, but they failed to recognize the importance of denying power to religious ideologues that would control the morality of their nation while shaking their bibles at so called anti-Christian interests.

Canada, are you going to let ‘JAlph LAYder’ be your girly-man ‘De-Terminator’?

If the Liberals were to embrace the NDP, such a move would be sure to spark amplified interest in the issues at stake, and defeat Stephen Harper’s Conservative parallel to George W. Bush’s Republicanism.

In these days of religious fundamentalist overload, (i.e. Pat Robertson/Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) it would be prudent to restrict public political connections with personal religious affiliations.

If we kept all references to spirituality in the collective sense and avoided making signature morality arguments, we would be sure not to isolate differing religions. I think deists would agree that this is the key to justice and peace for a world divided by conflicting theologies.

Conservatives whine about a woman’s right to choose, or gay people wanting equal respect, and exploit issues that set the precedent for meddling into other libertarian affairs. Oh, but they will talk a good economic plan…

In this new age of reasoning, I vote that we vote for those who vote for less restrictions on free speech and more restrictions on the politicizing of religion for the sake of undoing social progress in the name of ‘Judeo-Christian’ (As self-described) values. Therefore, if Jerry Falwell would say ‘America’, instead of ‘Judeo-Christian-Moslem-Hindu-Buddhist-Shinto… America” it would makes things a whole lot more palatable for everyone at the table.

I wonder if Ahmadinejad would turn his ‘wrath’ toward China, if Chinese politicians started talking about ‘Judeo-Christian’ values.

If Canada falls into the trap that captured America, perhaps Stephen Harper might say, ‘Fool you thrice, shame on – shame on the suckers who ignore the fact that any Adolf can chant ‘God, God’ to win extra political support.

Then there are the British and French (Bloc Quebecois) origins in Canada. Hmm…

Pattern seems to include three horns that might just become one, if Jack Layton objects enough to Sam Alito’s Confirmation that he would find it egoistical to think that the ‘De-Terminator’ would assume such an influence on the free world.

Now before you start saying, ‘Come on, Canada is more Catholic than any other religion’, I would like you to consider the possibility that great old beasts move much more subtly than you or I. One particular old beast was not quite ready for a liberal Catholic US President who, because he might have discovered the power of his hand to moderate some errs of religious politics, was summonsed to ‘the cross’.

People come and go, but nations grow older and wiser than their baby sisters do.

Perhaps Teddy’s older brother Jack was just a bit too Liberal, and it may be a good thing for John Kerry that he did not succeed in his bid for the ‘hot seat’ that awaits a Conservative Catholic. Of course, the Clinton-Martin partnership leaves a kink for the old sister to hammer out.

People come and go, but nations grow older and wiser than their baby sisters do.

I am sure that Hilary Clinton and the Paul Martin-Jack Layton union would lead North America away from captivity instead of toward it – if Canadians will vote Liberal or “New ‘Liberalcrat’”…

People come and go, but nations grow older and wiser than their baby sisters do.

* ‘The Fifth’ – Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. will be the fifth Catholic serving on the United States Supreme Court. Rule the religion - rule the land? Notice the historical climb from one to five Catholics on the Supreme Court. Check out adherents.com Hmm…

In the garden of free ideas, which of the following would best describe your response – if you were to make one?

I would like to troll you some fertilizer.

I would like to gaze at your flowers.

I would like to graze on your greens.

I will go smoke-out those silly little drones that work for the Queen, and then we can all snatch Her honey and sweeten the day.

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Let this ‘libel little book’ keep growing and refining itself in the waters of public domain.

~ Fellow Screen-Captor of Post-Wreckers

Marley Chanson

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